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Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe (fragment); Ossianic Poem; Poems on the O'Sullivans

18th cent. Paper. 19 × 15 cms. (pp. 1-14, 21-44) and 19 × 14 cms. (pp. 15-20). Pp. [2]+44. The ms. consists of fragments of three mss. written in three different hands. The first fragment occupies pp. 1-14 of the ms., the second pp. 15-20 and the third pp. 21-44. The first two hands are unidentified, the third is that of Aodh Ó Dálaigh (Hugh O'Daly). There is no scribal pagination. The word Maol appears on top of p. 15 and Edward Cartery his hand y^e 16th of October (?) 1756 on p. 20. The ms. is bound in full rexine with two blank leaves inserted after the front cover and two before the back cover. The shelf-mark 4^to/No. 3 Ir. MSS. Paper of the Heber collection and Phillipps Ms. 9360 appear on the recto of the fly-leaf while some pencilled numbers are written on the verso.

O'Daly's contribution (see pp. 21-44 infra), which is of greater interest than that of the other two scribes, consists of three poems on the O'Sullivans (Ó Súilleabháin Mór). It appears that O'Daly is also the author of these poems, two of which are found in variant and fragmentary forms in B.M. Eg. 139, f. 107, also in his hand.

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1-13 Aodh mhac Aingil. Scáthán Shacrámuinte na hAithridhe. Consists only of title-page, preface to the reader (Chum an Leaghthóra), list of marginal references (Allegationes Marginales omissae sic restituendae) and approbatio from the printed edition Louvain (1618).

14 Blank.

15 (top of page) Last two lines of a poem beg. Teagid tri haibnne.

15. Pádraig and Oisín. Foisneis Chath Gabhradh. Beg. Innis sin Oisin, air hineach is ar hiongnamh, 86 qq. Incomplete. Ends middle of p. 20 foll. by Edward Cartery his hand y^e 16 of October 1756 and other jottings.

21 [Aodh Ó Dálaigh]. Beg. Leanfud an eangsa o Dhun Loch. Attempt at deibhidhe in 157 lines. Pedigree of Domhnall (son of Eoghan Ruadh) Ó Súilleabháin Mór who flourished c. 1705 (see An Leabhar Muimhneach, ed. Tórna, p. 218) and the names of related families. Ends p. 28 with meic Domnaill ba borb a ccath. "This Donel (i.e. 1705) lost all his property in the Orange confiscation except the few townlands at the Toomies forfeited by Lord Kenmare ..." (Cork Hist. and Archaeological Soc. Jour., 1899, p. 23). Aindrias Mac Cruitin refers to his loss in a poem addressed to him (beg. "Ni miste me ar thógbhas d'eolas ughdar ard"). Several poets (Andrias Mac Cruitín, Eoghan Ón Cáinte, Eoghan Mac Diarmada Uí Shúilleabháin) wrote poems lamenting his death (in 1720).

29 [Aodh Ó Dálaigh]. Beg. Tru[a]gh mar do creachadh Leith Modh 120 lines. On the death, in 1754 (see p. 33, q. 6), of Domhnall (son of Eoghan Ruadh) Ó Súilleabháin Mór - grandson of above O'Sullivan (see p. 21 supra). His mother, Juliana, was a daughter of O'Sullivan Beare (see p. 29, ll. 15-16). There is a fragment ("12 quatr. and 1 of an annálach", B.M. ii, p. 97) of this poem l. 49 (p. 31) of the present copy. Ends p. 34.

35 [Aodh Ó Dálaigh]. Beg. A Mhaineastir Oirfhial is mor an t-eachtsa, 189 lines. Address to Muckross Abbey where Domhnall (son of Eoghan Ruadh) Ó Súilleabháin Mór (d. 1754, see p. 42, ll. 3-6 and previous poem) is buried (see p. 41, l. 21). He was the last O'Suillivan Mór (see p. 43 last line). "Mainistir Oirbhealach" is the Irish name of Muckross Abbey (AFM, vol. iii, p. 567). Its foundation by Tadhg (Mainistreach) Mac Carthaigh Mór is referred to on p. 35, l. 20: A roimh do chuir Taidhg air gradh De suas. A variant (98 ll.) of this poem, also in the hand of Ó Dálaigh, is contained in Eg. 139, f. 107. This elegy and the previous one (p. 29) are for Domhnall s. of E. Ó Súilleabháin Mór and not Ó Súilleabháin of Beare as stated in B.M. ii, p. 97. Ends p. 43.

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